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Discovery had her right hind leg amputated in October 2023. She had a rough recovery at first but is doing super great now. One thing we are dealing with is hot spots. She never had this issue prior to surgery, but since she's had 3. The first was on her right temple, and we figured she was rubbing on something to scratch since she didn't have her back leg to scratch with. She had an antibiotic injection and it healed in a few weeks. Second time she had one on her remaining back leg, this followed an incident where a poop got stuck to her and her in clumsy efforts to dislodge it she ended up with poop all over her back end. I cleaned her up but she ended up over grooming one spot to the point that licked all the hair off and had about a nickel sized sore spot. Again with the antibiotic injection and it healed in a few weeks.

Her belly was shaved for her 6 month ultrasound and she had some skin irritation. Now, she's licked the irritated spots into full on hots spots, one is very small and the other about the size of a pea and she'll lick it until it bleeds. In an effort to keep her from licking we have tried a surgical recover suit; that wont work because she acts as if she can't walk and will just lay down and cry. We've tried belly bands (male dog diapers) but because of her missing back leg she just slips out of them. Topical antiseptic or hydrocortisone would probably work if she didn't immediately lick it off. I really don't want to put a cone on her, she was pretty traumatized by being in a cone after surgery and I can't bear to put her though that again if its not absolutely necessary. 

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